Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

If your success is not amazing to your critics, it disturbs, infuriates, and frustrates them, and if they’re not careful; may go hang themselves and go to hell.

He beat me when you not here, I say.Who do, she say, Albert?Mr ____, I say.I can’t believe it, she say. She sit down on the bench next to me real hard, like she drop.What...

Stretch an unwavering tenacity when facing bad to worse attitudes.

I wish I am like someone else”, you are attempting to take alongside someone’s limitation you may not be able to manage.

The problem with some people is that they mentally limit themselves in life, but then turn around and become very envious of those who aren’t willing to settle for less.

I have found much in people to love but nothing to envy.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

You know, sometimes I even envy myself.

People you’ve known, seemingly forever, may claim to have love for you, but when gossip’s tainted tongue whips you – they don’t show enough love to weigh your history against false witness. Be that as...

They envy the distinction I have won; let them, therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

Envy is for people who don’t have the self-esteem to be jealous.

To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girlfriends.

Everyone wanted to see [him] fall so they could devour his remains. As is usually the case, the army of sycophants had turned into a horde of hungry hyenas

One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.

If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.

The happiness of being envied is glamour.Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you. You are observed with interest but you do...

Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends.

Do not share your thoughts with people who think that what you are thinking is not worth thinking.

Envy is the result of the effect that you have made on someone else’s life, whether they want to accept it or not.

I think envy motivates a lot of people.

ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

Freundschaft, ou quelque chose comme ça. Ta meilleure amie gagne un million au Loto, t’es contente pour elle et, en même temps, tu peux pas t’empêcher de penser avec rage: “Pourquoi pas moi?”.J’adore Ariane, mais...

The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.

A hopeful life is a successful life. People who bury their hopes and crave for someone’s success never know that their diamond is hidden as they envy other’s silver!

Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today — gluttony, fornication,...

Envy, bitter envy, was permeating his soul drop by drop, like a poison that tainted all his pleasures and made his life hateful.

Saturated Arrogance…imprisoned musescried to be freeshe took away their quillsand saiddo not bother me…

My classmates envy me because I can use a computer twice a week as a member of the IT training group.

Mankind are tolerant of the praises of others as long as each hearer thinks that he can do as well or nearly as well himself, but, when the speaker rises above him, jealousy is aroused...

The fear of meeting the opposition of envy, or the illiberality of ignorance is, no doubt, the frequent cause of preventing many ingenious men from ushering opinions into the world which deviate from common practice....

If people are jealous of you, it means you are worth something.

Whatever worldly thing we may covet – zealously striving to obtain and then retain – never seems to bring an end to our desires. Covetousness, envy, jealousy, and greed always escalate into a vicious spiral,...

In the modern Christian attempt to take a stand as Christ did, and maybe for others, win the approval of the world, the Christian will often think that it consists of targeting and demoralizing fellow...

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Adults envy the open-hearted and open-minded explorations of children; seeing their joy and curiosity, we pine for our own capacity for wide-eyed wonder.

Lucian’s father had warned him to fear idle men. Without the pride gained from a good day’s work, they were left to their vices and the doubts that crowded their head. Their hatred. Their envy.

Merry hearts are vulnerable to death, don’t be over-joyed to the state of oblivion, lest the enemy poison your meal.

The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

When ‘Dirty Mack’ salts your flow, get beyond feelings of hurt, anger, bitterness, and especially vengeance. Be glad, and take refuge in knowing light has been cast on the shadow of hatred, envy or jealousy...

Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others– it only changes yours.

When envy lies within a woman’s heart it cuts into her soul & gives her a toxic spirit. It is truly something to be disgusted by. I have experienced it so much in my own...

To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.

Are we not all one flesh? One mind? A sword brings power. Knowledge brings coin. With either, one can make blood reckoned, can earn names. The only thing that differs between a noble man and...

It does wonders for my own psyche to turn envy into inspiration. No matter how successful we become, we’re never above that.

People who hate you because of a mere jealousy over your success hurt themselves in disguise. This is because you carry an image of who they wish they had become. Don’t hate them back because...

The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy...

The bittersweet about truth is that nothing could be more hurtful, yet nothing could be more helpful.

When your success hovers from one person to the other, it will definitely get to someone who will regard it as failure.